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May 29, 2007
Citing Frustration With Peace Groups and Politics, Cindy Sheehan Goes Home
In a piece posted to Daily Kos, the famous Anti-war Mom declares,
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. . . I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.
Previously, on MonkeyFilter
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What happened to those 1,000 monkeys with 1,000 typewriters?
Well, things have turned ugly.
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On writing well.
At the beginning of his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell made clear that he thought the language had become disheveled and decadent. Intending shock, Orwell offered five examples of subliterate prose by known writers. But these selections don’t look as ghastly to us as they did to Orwell, because language is so much worse today.